Poetry

Cast from Bells

Suzanne Hancock's Cast from Bells was inspired by one of the great radio documentaries of our time, Peter ...

By Bert Almon

Blue Poppy

Ilona Martonfi's poems in Blue Poppy have more human than literary interest. She writes about life as a ...

By Bert Almon

The Crow’s Vow

Susan Briscoe's The Crow's Vow is another work dealing with a dysfunctional union. Her poems in this ...

By Bert Almon

This Way Out

As his readers would expect, Carmine Starnino's new book is well crafted and imaginative. A few poems don't carry ...

By Bert Almon

Pure Product

Jason Guriel draws the title of his book from a celebrated poem by William Carlos Williams, who lamented the human ...

By Bert Almon

Passenger Flight

Brian Campbell's inspiration is Charles Baudelaire: Passenger Flight begins with a quotation from the ...

By Bert Almon

Rutting Season

Rutting Season is essentially three chapbooks filled out with a conversation by the poets. The shop talk ...

By Bert Almon

Penned

Anyone fond of animals will want to read Penned, a remarkably wide-ranging collection of poems about zoos. ...

By Bert Almon

Witness and Resist

Marilyn Lerch's second book is equally committed to public issues (she has been a political activist for left-wing ...

By Bert Almon

Unisex Love Poems

Angela Szczepaniak's whimsical extravaganza Unisex Poems is published in the Punchy Poetry series from DC ...

By Bert Almon

The Pangborn Defence

Norm Sibum's work constantly suggests ancient Roman precedents: Tacitus, Sallustius, Propertius, Catullus, and ...

By Bert Almon